Category: Emerging Artist Award

EA Winner – Zhidong Zheng

Zhidong Zhang

Emerging Artist Award: Visual

“The SBCF Emerging Artist Grant definitely came in time within such turmoil of the pandemic. I was just fresh out of graduate school and trying to navigate myself as a professional artist, and being awarded this grant helped me get my feet on the ground during this trying time. With the generosity of the St. Botolph Club, not only did I receive tremendous financial support in covering material costs and equipment fees, I was also able to stay connected with the community I love in Boston, take time diving deeper into my practice, and establish a clearer and firmer voice of my own. It has been a wonderful and magical journey with the support from the St. Botolph Club, and I’m very grateful and honored to be part of it!”

EA Winner: Brianna Robinson

 

 

Emerging Artist Award: Music

“Winning the SBCF Emerging Artist Award meant that I could travel to the Czech Republic with an incredible vocal training program called OpernFest Prague. I was able to work beside many members of the head leadership at The National Theatre in Prague (Narodni Divadlo) working on my performance and vocal technique. This experience ended in my audition for 8 of the top theaters in Prague as well as a performance with the orchestra of The National Theatre. All of this complimented by the beautiful and storybook city of Prague. This grant also allowed me to extend my studies here in Boston, beginning voice lessons with an incredible teacher from New England Conservatory. I am very grateful to the SBCF for allowing me to continue my passion for opera and performance. Their Emerging Artist Award has refreshed my commitment to such a beautiful and life-changing art form.”

EA Winner: Jonathan Shin

Emerging Artist Award: Music

In 2019 I was commissioned to compose an orchestral suite celebrating my country’s Bicentennial. Thanks to the Emerging Artist grant, I was able to fly back to Singapore to do more in-depth research about the history and multicultural roots of my nation. My heart is filled with gratitude to the St. Botolph Club Foundation for their support and affirmation in my music.

EA Winner: Margery Mueller

Emerging Artist Award: Visual

” One of the major recent  moments for me was finding out that I had won the the 2019  St.Botolph Emerging Artist award and the Nellie Taft painting award”  The award came in the mail the week of my 75th birthday.
Although I was a painting major and did work at my art over the past many years, it wasn’t until I moved to New Hampshire 10 years ago, with my new husband, Bob Mueller, that I  finally had space and time to work daily, and finally actualize my career. My work has been lauded by some but wining this award has been a significant moment for me.”

EA Winner: AH Jerriod Avant

Emerging Artist Award: Literature

“It’s always a boost of encouragement when people who love poetry and the arts, recognize you and your work. Having been awarded an emerging artist grant from the Saint Botolph Club Foundation, I was able to forgo seeking time-consuming summer work, I was able to cover essential bills while traveling to and spending invaluable time in Mississippi where most of the poems in my manuscript-in-progress were written and conceptualized. The current manuscript was at a pivotal point last summer. It needed the attention equivalent of a summer to pen a small number of new works, make individual revisions and survey the entire text for cohesiveness. The Saint Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Grant was timely and extremely instrumental in the progress of my writing. It carved out for me, the time necessary to dedicate toward the careful shaping of what will become my first collection of poems.” – A. H. Jerriod Avant

EA Winner: Destiny Palmer

Destiny Palmer
Destiny Palmer

2018 Emerging Artist Award: Visual Arts

Destiny Palmer, Nellie Taft Award Winner for Painting

“To win this award is to be validated, to be heard and seen, in what I do as an artist. I’m grateful to have been given the stability to continue my growth in my paintings. ”

 

Destiny Palmer

Let my body hang.
2018
Acrylic, Ink and pastel on canvas (unstretched)
96″ x 84″